Dignity Quotes

Dignity belongs to the conquered.

The one who fights back retains his dignity and his self-respect.

The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it.

There are too many black players. Italy has no dignity, no pride.

Dissent... is a right essential to any concept of the dignity and freedom of the individual; it is essential to the search for truth in a world wherein no authority is infallible.

To have control of my own mind... to go with dignity is less terryfying. When I look at both options I have to die, I feel this is far more humane.

It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine.

Human rights means that each individual should be treated with respect, dignity and equality.

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.

Tap into people's dignity and they will do anything for you. Ignore it, and they won't lift a finger.

All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable.

All political activity must serve and promote the good of the human person and be based on respect for his or her dignity.

O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven

It is a good idea sometimes to think of the importance and dignity of our every-day duties. It keeps them from being so tiresome; besides, others are apt take us at our own valuation.

Bukharin's a swine and surely worse than a swine because he thinks it below his dignity to write a couple of lines.

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world.

No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge

They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.

The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.

You read about me in history books, but now I am dedicated to spreading the truth about preserving the dignity of all human life from natural conception to natural death.

I won't defile my blessings by imagining that I deserve them. Until every human receives the dignity I casually enjoy, I pray my heart aches with tension and my belly rumbles for injustice.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn't implement any of it.

Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had

There is no brotherhood between love and dignity, Nor can they share the same abode.

Health care is an essential safeguard of human life and dignity and there is an obligation for society to ensure that every person be able to realize this right.

Dignity is the reward of holding oneself accountable to conscience.

Dignity and majesty have I seen but once, as it stood in chains, at midnight, in a dungeon in an obscure village of Missouri.

The transformation of nature, a total fusion of science, art and technology in a sublime statement of human dignity and intelligence through the settlements we build for ourselves.

America must remain, at any cost, the custodian of freedom, human dignity and economic security. The United States must be strong, so that no nation may dare attack.

A man's dignity isn't measured by the people he has around him when he's at the peak of his success, but by his ability not to forget those who helped him when his need was greatest.

It is my hope and my belief that you will be able to report that I died with dignity, without animal fear and without bravado. I owe that much to myself.

I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.

You treat people with dignity and respect and they give it right back to you.

The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.

Human rights, human freedoms... and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world... while the state is a human creation, human beings are the creation of God.

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

How I wish everyone had decent work! It is essential for human dignity.

There is only one terminal dignity - love.

Poverty has its advantages. When you're that poor what would you have that anyone would want? Except your peace of mind. Your dignity. Your heart. The important things.

You are a great, mighty and powerful spiritual being with dignity, direction and purpose.

As for my dignity... the hell with my dignity. I will get along alright in this world. I don't have to be dignified, professional.

I may not be able to keep fighting for money... but I will always have to fight for my dignity, because that's who I am.

Work is fundamental to the dignity of the person. Work, to use an image, 'anoints' with dignity, fills us with dignity, makes us similar to God who has worked and still works, who always acts.

If I had any dignity, that would have been humiliating.

But before we die, how shall we live? I say with hope and dignity; and if premature death is the result, that death has a meaning reactionary suicide can never have. It is the price of self-respect.

Dignity of labour has to be our national duty; it has to be a part of our nature.

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.